X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?

Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by chrismorgan on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:31AM (#38568235)

Incidental: I’ve seen people increasingly using x.com links in their articles. How does that happen? As far as I can tell, it just redirects to twitter.com and that’s where everything is, but it doesn’t seem likely that everyone’s changing twitter to x, so is there something that is giving these links?

I have far less confidence that x.com links will continue to work for years than twitter.com links.

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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by bluedino on Friday December 08, 2023 @08:06AM (#38568523)

They'll never become 'X', except internally. They'll always be known as "the site formerly known as Twitter".

Just like Prince.

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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by InCityDreams on Friday December 08, 2023 @08:31AM (#38568798)

Prince wasn't formally known as ""the site formerly known as Twitter"."

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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by runamuck on Friday December 08, 2023 @09:37AM (#38569533)

It will take. We once called KFC "Kentucky Fried Chicken."

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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by cantSpellSober on Friday December 08, 2023 @10:33AM (#38570232)

Nobody called it that :)

> This wasn’t so much of a problem when Kentucky Fried Chicken became KFC—lots of us already called it that

https://slate.com/business/2004/05/what-does-kfc-stand-for-n...

Twitter has always been Twitter

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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by rsynnott on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:49AM (#38568392)

I assume if you're using the Twitter app and click "share link" it gives you an X-y one.

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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by delecti on Friday December 08, 2023 @09:19AM (#38569336)

You assume correctly. Though x.com redirects to twitter.com, for what it's worth.

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